Ralph Macchio in the Karate Kid, 1984.

Deterring Bullies: The “€œKarate Kid”€ Program

The Obama Administration has declared war on school bullies. The Department of Education recently issued guidelines to prevent what Secretary Arne Duncan called bullying's ...

Crossing Bridges on May Day

How was your May Day? Mine was all right. Actually, that's not true. It started off left, turned right, stayed right, and then went left again. I went to an OWS protest, sent out ...

A Confederacy of Censors

I"€™m living in North Carolina right now. When I first moved here, I thought I"€™d see people hanging out on their front porches, drinking whiskey with a splash of sweet tea, ...

Benito Mussolini

Red Flags and a Red Rose

Each year on April 25, Italians commemorate Italy's 1945 liberation with yet another public holiday. Any sane person would think this ought to involve honoring those who did the ...

Victims of the RUF

Blood, Diamonds, Devils, and Angels

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has become the first African head of state to be convicted of a crime by an international court and the first national leader anywhere ...

Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Breivik: Too Sane for Comfort

My brother has just been to stay with me in Italy. He may be a top London lawyer, but he is a mixed-up liberal lefty. He has lots of rich Muslim clients"€”a mere coincidence, no ...

Something Rotten in the State

With the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and ...

Ted Nugent

Taming the Wild Nugent

All the right people hate Ted Nugent. And when I say all the right people, naturally I mean all the left people. His pinko antagonists were screeching like freshly castrated mink ...

Fantasy Island, Libertarian Style

The modern age offers no refuge from the state. The world's habitable unpopulated regions are firmly under sovereign nations"€™ regulation. There is still adventure to be had in ...

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio il Magnifico

The Italians are obsessed with bidets. They dismiss as dirty the people of any country that does not provide bidets in every bathroom, whether public or private. As a Briton who ...

The National Review Sensitivity Cruise

As many readers of Taki's Mag know, America has recently experienced a nasty outbreak of white racism. While the hate-mongering culprits have been duly punished, it is clear that ...

Punk Rockers Make Good Conservatives

I grew up playing in hardcore punk bands and fighting skinheads, and the political mantra for that scene was "€œAnarchy and Peace."€ It seems incredibly naïve in ...

Hugo Chávez

Chávez: Still Riding the Pink Tide

During Benedict XVI's recent trip to Cuba, the brothers Castro tumbled out to meet the pontiff. But there was another noted visitor to Cuba at the same time"€”one there for ...

Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama

Bibi’s Dilemma—and Barack’s

“Bibi” Netanyahu was disgusted. “My initial reaction is that Iran has gotten a freebie. It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any ...

Same Election, Different Year

We are facing another US presidential election. The two candidates have been picked, most likely by hand. It is depressing how fast these contests come around and how similar and ...

Silvio Berlusconi

What Is it With You Italians?

Mitt Romney branded Barack Obama's economic policies "€œEuropean"€ in his speech last Tuesday after Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the Republican primaries. As a British ...


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